The two fell over each other’s sentences as each attempted to one-up the other, currying Anatoly’s favor. One was his nephew and one was his protégée. Svetlana was much smarter than Ilya, but Ilya was blood. On the other hand, Svetlana had talents that extended beyond murder and mayhem.Anatoly was watching them on an iPad that Ilya had set on a cardboard box. One of Anatoly’s many holding companies had signed the lease on this warehouse years ago. He didn’t even remember what was in the cardboard boxes any more.“So then we threw him over the side,” Ilya informed him.Anatoly nodded calmly, but inside, he was furious. Had they not even considered that Suresh could have gotten them another copy of the chip? It had taken Anatoly nearly a year to recruit Suresh to betray his employer. Suresh had been his only contact there. Mischa Stepanoff, the “mutual acquaintance” who had served as Anatoly’s go-between with Suresh, had died ages ago. Anatoly had made it look like a drug overdose, but it had simply been a case of ensuring there were no loose ends where the chip was involved.But now Anatoly suspected that Mischa had been the one to introduce Ravi to Mr.
